A reviewer from East London, South Africa wrote in November, "Lingshan tourist center is a great afternoon out, sure there is a lot of captive marketing but after spending that amount of money on such a beautiful place they deserve to make a few RMB out of us,"
However, this cannot please everyone. One skeptical tourist who reviewed the place said "This is a tourist trap if I ever saw one. I mean really, over two hundred RMB to see a statue? And not even any historical relevance,"
Despite Tian Tan being smaller compared to other Big Buddhas in China, the Hong Kong tourism board estimates more than one million people still visit the Buddha each year.
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